Smugglers, Inc. A Comprehensive Approach to Smuggler Identification and Apprehension

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1 1 Smugglers, Inc. A Comprehensive Approach to Smuggler Identification and Apprehension SYLLABUS SURVEY

2 2 Course Description: This dynamic 16-Hour comprehensive online course is designed to provide the attendee with the skill-set necessary to properly identify and apprehend smuggling operators in transit. During the course, the attendees will learn about the specific components involved in countersmuggling/interdiction enforcement missions. Discussion in this course includes familiarization with recent national case-laws that affect criminal interdiction, while providing scientific tools to counter arguments presented in the court systems. The curriculum, having been designed by the instructor and based on his personal expertise, begins with helping the attendees understand their own strengths, while providing solutions to improve their weaknesses in interview situations. The course continues into understanding the Smuggling Operations and the Tradecraft used in these Clandestine Operations. By understanding the inner-workings of these operations and having the ability to properly and effectively identify clandestine activities of smuggling groups, the attendee will become proficient in properly identifying smuggling targets through analytical research, critical thinking and operational categorization prior to the stop, which continues throughout the contact. The course provides various techniques that can be used to engage the vehicle occupants and clandestinely illicit the needed data to determine if and what type of criminal activity is afoot. Utilizing the Evading Honesty system (a cross-cultural/crossgender interview system), the attendee is taught to formulate questions in a manner that is noncoercive and non-confrontational to gain intelligence needed to establish reasonable suspicion for detention. As a part of the process, the attendee will be exposed to techniques to decipher through various data obtained during these face-to-face contacts, by which the attendee will be able to not only identify the criminal element more effectively, but also have the ability to properly document the events in a case report, as well as properly testify to the said actions in various court hearings. Upon completion of the course, the attendee will have learned about vehicle selection process (Targeting), non-coercive interview techniques, rapid behavioral/statement analysis techniques (Evading Honesty System), properly obtaining consent to search, and proper documentation of observed anomalies. The learning experience is enhanced by being exposed to several case-study videos (made by the instructor himself), in which the skill-set is applied with positive results. This course addresses the issues raised in the court cases such as: Rodriguez V. United States (April 2015) and provides the means by which the attendee can minimize the risk of losing a case in court. * Triple I Solutions and its associates do not promote enforcement tactics based on racial/ethnic profiling and/or Policing for Profit Techniques!

3 3 Course Objectives: 1. Student/Officer will learn important personal attributes (Self-Evaluation), such as Student/Officer personalities, learning styles and how each Student/Officer interprets communications components when in contact with others. 2. Student/Officer will learn the Tradecraft of Smuggling Operations to assist in targeting and interviewing suspected smugglers. 3. Student/Officer will understand the Evading Honesty System s components and be able to effectively observe deceptive behaviors related to triggers. 4. Student/Officer will understand factors considered in target selection, utilizing tradecraft and interview techniques. 5. Student/Officer will learn legal and proper manner to obtain consent to search to combat legal issues. 6. Student/Officer will learn how to conduct directed/whisper stops to prevent problematic testimony in court. 7. Student/Officer will be exposed to factors and tradecraft commonly used by human smugglers, which differ from contraband smugglers.

4 4 Course Outline: 1.1 Self Evaluation and Officer Observation Skills and Personalities. 1.2 Downfall of Statistic Led Enforcement using indictors. 1.3 Systematic Stops to a successful traffic stop contact. 1.4 Five Components of Roadside Interviews on Interdiction Stops. 2.1 Tradecraft, Types and Levels of Smuggling Operations. 2.2 Operational Norms of various Smuggling Operations. 2.3 Hierarchy of Smuggling Organizations relative to transportation. 3.1 Components of the Evading Honesty System. 3.2 Types of Lies. 3.3 Verbal and Non-Verbal Responses to Questions/Triggers. 3.4 Proxemics and its effect on interviewing. 3.5 Behavioral cautions and misinterpretations. 4.1 Tools of the trade in interdiction enforcement. 5.1 Target Selection Techniques. 5.2 Driving Behavior Changes. 5.3 Occupant Behaviors prior to the stop. 5.4 Intelligence use for target selection. 5.5 Deciphering Clandestine Activity on vehicle registrations. 5.6 Tag Sequencing to identify clandestine activity 6.1 Directed Stops in General. 6.2 Whisper and Wall-Off stops and follow up judicial process issues. 7.1 Human Smuggling Verses Contraband Smuggling. 7.2 Indication of Human Smuggling Activity on a traffic stop. 7.3 Data Collection on Human Smuggling Stops to assist agencies with investigations.

5 5 Course Developer Biography: Shaheen Moayed Pardazi Shawn Pardazi CEO/Co Founder of Triple I Solutions (GCSTC, LLC.) Course Developer/Instructor Mr. Pardazi is a 22-year veteran Law Enforcement Officer and is the Co-Founder/CEO of Triple I Solutions. During his law enforcement tenure, Mr. Pardazi has served in various positions such as Patrol, Bicycle Unit, Community Policing Liaison Officer, Traffic Officer, Narcotics Agent, Canine Handler and Federal Task Force Agent with the United States Department of Justice s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force (N TX HIDTA), The Internal Revenue Service s Criminal Investigations Section (IRS-CID) and currently serves as a Task Force Agent with the Meridian Police Department s Homeland Security Investigations Unit, assigned to the US-DHS (ICE-HSI). Having been involved in hundreds of Criminal Interdiction and Terrorism Investigation cases, resulting in the seizure of thousands of Kilos of Contraband, several million Dollars in United States Currency, and arrest of several suspected terrorists in transit, Mr. Pardazi has earned a reputation within United States as one of the mentors for other law enforcement officers/agents and as one of the leading experts in the field of Criminal and Terrorism Interdiction by several federal and state criminal justice entities to include the court systems. Mr. Pardazi is of the Middle Eastern descent and grew up in the Middle East, therefore very familiar with the Cultural attributes of the region. His unique cultural background enables him to have the firsthand insight and knowledge of the differences in cultures and mindset, based on different outlooks on life from various perspectives. Based on his life experiences living in the Middle East, his association with Middle Easterners, and his role as a law enforcement officer in the United States, he is able to deliver instruction on various topics regarding the culture of the Middle Easterners and how to detect the criminal element within this unique immigrant community, which assists in identifying the violent extremism and the organized criminal elements. In addition, Mr. Pardazi has over 5000 classroom training hours in various law enforcement topics with over 2500 hours of the training having special emphasis in subconscious communication, Detecting Deception, Human/Suspect deceptive behavioral detection, Micro-Expression/Subtle-Expression Recognition, Non-Coercive Interrogation Techniques, Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Narcotics Investigations, and Criminal/Terrorism Interdiction Techniques, which he utilizes to enhance the student s understanding of the course material presented. He is the Co-Author of Evading Honesty, a publication (available online and all major bookstores), focusing on rapid behavioral analysis techniques in relation to detecting deception. Mr. Pardazi has received certifications as a Master Criminal Interdiction Officer by the National Criminal Enforcement Association (NCEA), Holds the Title of Royal Knight of the Black Asphalt (#7), is a Certified US DOJ (USDOJ/DEA/EPIC) and US DOT (USDOT/FMCSA/DIAP) Criminal and Terrorism Interdiction Instructor and is a Certified Police Instructor through Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE). Mr. Pardazi holds a Master Peace Officer License in Texas as well as a Peace Officer License in the State of Mississippi. He has received extensive training from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in rapid behavioral analysis techniques, non-coercive interrogation techniques deployed during face-to-face contact with target individuals involved in various criminal activities and national security issues. He is a certified expert practitioner of Dr. Paul Ekman Group s Micro and Subtle Expression Recognition Program. Mr. Pardazi has delivered training to and/or on behalf of various law enforcement entities throughout the United States to include: Various United States Attorney s Offices (LECC), US DHS-Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (DHS-CRCL), US DOJ-Community Relations Services (DOJ-CRS), Various High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Forces (ONDCP-HIDTA), Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Centers (RTTAC), US DOJ-Anti-Terrorism Advisory Councils (ATAC), Elements of the United States Military s Special Operations Forces (SOF), and Various other local and state law enforcement entities Mr. Pardazi has drafted policies and procedures for several agencies in the areas of Interdiction Unit Operations, Interdiction Canine Deployment, and Counter-Smuggling and Terrorism Interdiction Programs. He has been summoned to testify as an expert in the field of criminal and terrorism interdiction in various state and federal jurisdictions. Mr. Pardazi continues his career as a Counter-Smuggling and Terrorism Interdiction Officer, assigned to a Federal Task Force, working closely with various local, state and federal Agencies.